| The failed “werewolf” returned to work at the Ministry of Internal Affairs The Prosecutor's Office of the Central District of Moscow recently closed the criminal case against the senior detective for particularly important cases of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel Gennady Tsepelev. In the fall, he was arrested by the State Security Directorate on charges of extortion, and soon the detective’s arrest was shown on all television channels, where Tsepelev was called “another werewolf in uniform.” However, he has now been found completely innocent and, moreover, returned to work yesterday. A few weeks ago, by the way, a criminal case was closed against another GUUR employee, Sergei Gusarov, who was also arrested by the GUSS and recorded by the media as a “werewolf.”
In October 2003, the GUSB reported that its employees managed to expose a whole group of corrupt police officers. First, former sergeant Sergei Kudinov was captured, and on October 29, employee of the 16th department (interstate search) of the GUUR Gennady Tsepelev was detained. The latter was in good standing with the Ministry of Internal Affairs before this incident; at one time it was he who detained the Chelyshev gang, which committed a number of contract killings and was suspected of eliminating Vladislav Listyev and Mikhail Manevich.
According to the GUSB, Tsepelev was still investigating in 1994 the case of an attack on the family of a large businessman, the head of the Liga 2S trading house, Sergei Savlevich. Ten years later, he remembered this story and allegedly decided to make money on it. At first, Savlevich was beaten by Caucasians who seemed to have been sent by “werewolves,” and then Tsepelev’s friend Kudinov came to him and offered him police protection. The businessman turned to the State Security Service, and upon receiving 8 thousand dollars, Kudinov was detained. Soon Tsepelev was also arrested, who, according to the GUSB, patronized Kudinov.
“We met Kudinov many years ago in one common campaign,” Gennady Tsepelev himself told us. — Then he worked in the security department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then he quit and went into business with Savlevich. Once Kudinov complained that Savlevich owed a large sum and had not paid it back for a year. He asked me for advice, since I have a higher legal education. I agreed, studied the documents that Kudinov presented to me, and then met with Savlevich. I asked him if he and Kudinov really had a joint business. He confirmed. Then I asked if he had borrowed money. Savlevich replied: “It depends on what is considered a duty.” Realizing that the situation was confusing, I advised Kudinov to go to court. And on October 28, I saw on TV that he had been detained. Even then I thought: this is obviously Savlevich, through the police, eliminating an unwanted partner. And a day later, GUSB officers came to me and offered to go to the prosecutor’s office. There they presented a warrant for detention and sent him to prison. As it turned out, within 24 hours all TV channels showed my arrest and were talking about the capture of “another werewolf in uniform.” On November 5, a confrontation with Savlevich took place. On it, he stated that he had seen me once in his life, we discussed only legal issues, I did not threaten him and did not demand anything. Despite this, I was left in prison, where I spent a total of 100 days. Then they released me, and the other day I was invited by an investigator who showed me a resolution to terminate the criminal case against me for lack of corpus delicti. I'm shocked by this whole situation. I worked for a long time in the RUBOP and detained dangerous bandits. Then he served in the SOBR GUBOP, fought in Chechnya, was awarded the medal “For Courage”, the Order “For Servants to the Fatherland”, and the Zhukov Medal. And I was glorified on all TV channels as a “werewolf.” How can I continue working in law enforcement?” Alexander SHVAREV |
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